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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Did you know
that Valentine’s day was rooted in a festival called Lupercalia in
pagan Rome? It involved abusing women and engaging in some sort of sexual
lottery. I guess that sounds romantic to some people.

Monday, January 15, 2018

I once went hiking up a mountain with some friends. As we went higher the trail got thinner. In some places we were one small slip from plunging to the depths of Hell. Then there was a spot where the trail had been washed out. A jump of about three feet was required to go forward.I was at the front of the group but I was so scared of missing the little jump that I stepped aside and let the others go first. I was in good shape and there was no reason to think I would have any trouble with the jump. However, the more I looked, the more I envisioned myself sliding down the mountain to my demise.

Monday, January 1, 2018

The punchline is the funny part of the joke.
First you have the setup, then comes the punchline. It’s the destination. The
setup normally exists for one reason - to lead the way to the punchline. (There
are talented people who get laughs out of their setups, but that’s fairly
unusual.)

Most people have probably heard someone tell a
joke and include all sorts of details in the setup that really weren’t
necessary. There’ve been many times when I‘ve heard someone setting up a joke
and I’ve muttered inwardly, “Would you please get to the punchline?”

Sunday, November 5, 2017

I've seen the Blue Angels dozens of times, but this was the the best performance I've ever seen. The sky was perfect, the light was perfect, and I had a good camera and a nice spot to shoot from. Unforgettable!

Sunday, August 20, 2017

The
bad news is that there is a nationwide shortage of glasses to view the eclipse.
The good news is that suitable viewing boxes can be made out of the millions of
Amazon boxes that have been piling up in Americans’ garages. Now, nobody has to
miss out.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Once
upon a time, I was having a good set at a small nightclub in Georgia. I was in
my angry phase and that was really working for me. Someone in the audience
asked, “Do you hate everyone?”

I said,
“No, I don’t hate everyone. Just people like you.”

I know
it doesn’t sound funny at all, but people were laughing. Then I said, “I’m
kidding. That was just a joke. Have you noticed that when people say something
was just a joke, it usually wasn’t?”

More
laughter. Once in a while when you do standup, you can say anything and people
will laugh. I even blew a few punchlines that night and people still laughed. On
the other hand, when you tell lots of jokes, some of them are going to go
wrong.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

When Kathy Griffin saw how many Americans were
offended by the severed Trump head, she acknowledged that she went way over
the line. Americans from both sides of the political spectrum agreed. As
Melania Trump commented, it was very disturbing. Griffin posted an apology
which seemed sincere. Nevertheless, there were consequences. Griffin was
fired by CNN for the annual New Year’s Eve gig. Al Franken cancelled appearances with her.

With some of the commentary that has gone back
and forth prior to the last election and since then, the line between decency and vulgarity seems to have disappeared. Profanity has become
very common and the insults hurled between the right and the left are limited
only by the imaginations of the people speaking them.

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Danny Murphy is a writer and humorist from Jacksonville, FL. He has had hundreds of articles, letters, book reviews, and more published in dozens of newspapers and magazines.

He has also written a good deal of corporate literature including annual reports, newsletters, and marketing materials. He has ghost-written dozens of articles and a book for clients.

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